AVP Enrollment and Student Success

Position Summary

The Associate Vice President (AVP) for Enrollment and Student Success provides strategic and operational leadership for the full student experience, from recruitment and admission through enrollment, academic progress, graduation, career development, and alumni engagement. The AVP leads the teams, systems, partnerships, and programs that support enrollment, persistence, completion, and long-term engagement, ensuring a welcoming, responsive, and student-centered experience.

Working closely with the President, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (SVPAA), faculty, and partners across the institute, the AVP develops strategies that increase enrollment, remove barriers to student success, and deepen alumni relationships. The role serves as a visible, trusted advocate for students at every stage of their relationship with Erikson.

Erikson Institute seeks a leader who is student-centered, equity-minded, and mission-driven, with a track record of building trust across students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community partners. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with strong follow-through, uses data to inform decisions without losing sight of individual student needs, and is skilled at identifying and building new partnerships that advance student success. The AVP will work closely with professionals across early childhood, education, social work, mental health, and public policy, fields at the heart of Erikson's mission to improve outcomes for young children, families, and communities.

• Set the institution-wide enrollment strategy, goals, and priorities, and hold the Director of Admissions accountable for execution and results.
• Direct an integrated prospective-student journey from inquiry through enrollment, with clear service standards, decision points, and handoffs across units.
• Support senior leadership in establishing differentiated enrollment goals.
• Partner with academic program directors on differentiated recruitment strategies for degree and certificate programs.
• Build and sustain strategic pipelines with colleges, school districts, employers, governmental entities, community-based organizations, and other mission-aligned partners, including models that support enrollment, affordability, and student success.
• Use market intelligence, enrollment-funnel data, conversion rates, demographic trends, and program-level performance to set priorities and allocate resources.
• Partner with Marketing and Communications to align enrollment goals, priority audiences, audience insights, and performance data with brand strategy, paid and organic campaigns, content production, and institutional messaging.
• Ensure recruitment and admission policies and practices are equitable, transparent, compliant, and responsive to graduate and adult learners.

• Set a coordinated student-success strategy spanning enrollment, orientation, advising, accessibility, engagement, career development, commencement, and alumni relations, and hold portfolio directors accountable for an integrated student experience.
• Serve as a senior institutional advocate for graduate students, adult learners, working professionals, online and international students, and students from historically and systemically excluded communities.
• Establish systematic approaches for gathering student feedback, identifying emerging needs, and ensuring that student perspectives inform institutional decisions and service improvements.
• Oversee integrated onboarding, advising, early-support, and re-engagement strategies that remove barriers and strengthen persistence and completion.
• Set expectations for student engagement, belonging, leadership, and co-curricular learning, including meaningful connections with faculty, alumni, trustees, employers, and community partners.
• Coordinate the student-facing administration of academic-integrity processes and support faculty in maintaining academic standards and integrity.
• Provide executive oversight for student conduct, nonacademic grievances, crisis response, emergency student support, and coordinated student case management.
• Coordinate student-facing processes, communications, referrals, and support related to FERPA, Title IX, Clery, and other student-related requirements with the designated institutional officials who retain formal compliance authority.
• Ensure coordinated planning and communication across major student-and alumni-facing milestones and events, including enrollment, commencement, career, and alumni programs.
• Provide strategic oversight for career development and alumni engagement, including lifelong connection, career services, professional networks, alumni programming, leadership opportunities, and alumni feedback.
• Coordinate the alumni engagement strategy with Development’s responsibility for advancement strategy, fundraising, donor relationships, alumni giving, and gift stewardship.